Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Cast your bread upon the waters, the Bible says somewhere, and pray that something comes back besides overweight seagulls.GATA does a lot of casting, usually without result, but you never know when and where someone will pick up on it, and this week a teacher and writer in Pakistan, Taha Ali, did. Ali, who writes for Pakistan's national English-language newspaper, th...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Cast your bread upon the waters, the Bible says somewhere, and pray that something comes back besides overweight seagulls.GATA does a lot of casting, usually without result, but you never know when and where someone will pick up on it, and this week a teacher and writer in Pakistan, Taha Ali, did. Ali, who writes for Pakistan's national English-language newspaper, th...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Friday was a positive 94-83-114. The TSX Venture Exchange gained three points to 880 while polished diamond prices were flat. Paul Farquharson's eCobalt Solutions Inc. (ECS) fell 17 cents to $1.6...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange rallied 3.65 points to 880.44 Friday, ending the week up 2.24 points. Vince Gasparro and Michael Galego's first capital pool shell, the halted Apolo Acquisition Corp. (ACA), has received shareholder approval an...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold rose $4.30 to $1,330.70 on Friday. The TSX Venture Exchange added 3.65 points to 880.44 while the TSX Gold Index climbed 1.02 points to 197.64. Detour Gold Corp. (DGC) led the march higher today, adding 33 cents to $...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterWest Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery lost 58 cents to $63.37 on the New York Merc, while Brent for March lost 70 cents to $68.61 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $24.75 to...Read More
Asteroid strikes, flu plague, and economic meltdown.According to CNN, that is what we should fear from this “government shutdown.”People have to hype it up in order to give the impression that the government matters.In reality, this just reveals why we shouldn’t trust the government to do anything essential in our lives.If political fights in DC can put people at that kind of ris...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Central banks and governments that are secretly trading futures contracts in the United States on CME Group exchanges qualify for discounts ranging from 7 percent for two-year U.S. Treasury futures to 15 percent for gold and silver futures to 60 percent for Eurodollar futures. Central banks and governments receiving these trading discounts cannot trade directly but m...Read More
By John MauldinGlobal Growth CapRepeating HistoryFlying Blind at 20XChina ChillsSonoma and San DiegoThe holidays are fading from memory, and 2018 is off to a good start, economically speaking. Most of the forecasts I've read expect a good year - not a blockbuster year or a horrendous one, but a mild pickup that ought to satisfy investors. Even the bears seem less confident than usual.The holiday...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloAs investors' bullish sentiment moves up to euphoric levels, the markets are reaching extreme leverage. This is terrible news because a lot of people are going to lose one heck of a lot of money. According to CNN Money's Fear & Greed Index, the market is now at the "extreme greed" level and if we go by Yardeni Research on "Investor Intelligence Bull-Bear Ratio," it's also...Read More
By Gary SavageThe tactics employed by the big banks to enter and exit the metals markets are detailed and are used to estimate how gold is likely to perform in the short term.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
By George SmithThe biggest trend I see for the future is the meltdown of governments at all levels combined with a decentralizing, individual-empowering exponential growth in technology. States, in other words, will self-destruct while people get smarter, stronger, healthier, and freer they will get a lot smarter, a lot stronger, a lot healthier and from this, freedom from the state will be...Read More
The FBI says it lost roughly five months worth of text messages between two staffers who worked on probes into former Continue...Read More
The arguments in favor of silver as aninvestment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass, silver isthe most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential forprice appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver,but do own huge tracts of gold. Industry has huge demand for silver, but atrifling amount for gold demand. The investment demand is...Read More
The two largest foreign holders of the US debt, China and Japan, reduced their holdings of US government bonds in November compared to October. While manyContinue...Read More
Yields on US Treasuries have leaped recently. It will wreck the yellow metal. Or maybe not.Yields reach new heights. Breakthrough for gold?Last week, we wrote that concerns emerged that China could stop or slow buying the US Treasuries. The US bond yields reacted strongly. We noted that in theory it should sink gold, but the usual "correlation between bullion and Treasury yields broke down thanks...Read More
Featured GuestsDr. Marc Faber & Louis NavellierShow HighlightsLouis Navellier of Navellier & Associates notes the best corporate earnings in 6 years and tax cuts could spur forward the already lofty US equities markets in 2018. Dividend yielding stocks may be preferable in 2018, but caution is advisable before chasing yield too high, which only magnifies risk / volatility. The host / guest concu...Read More
The next person that says "The Dow [aka that Index at which our parents look] went up 1000 points in seven days!" is going to get (to quote Catherine Deneuve from "The April Fools", 1969) "a sock in the eye!"Let's put this one to bed straight away. 'Twas all the rage last Wednesday about a seven-day, 1000-point increase for "The Dow". First, on a closing basis, the seven-trading-day rise was 820 p...Read More
"The transparency standards of the G30 fall below the standards applied by the ECB in the context of other fora, or even the transparency standards applied Continue...Read More